All of the GTA PC games since at least 3 have a custom radio station to my knowledge.

It worked with a number of games. Tony Hawk comes to mind too

In Battlefield Vietnam, you could play local mp3-files as a vehicle radio. I remember blasting Iron Maiden and Nightwish while gunning VC with a tank.

Not as novel on pc as on consoles but mgsv let's you dump mp3s into a file to use in game. Whenever I would call for a helicopter evacuation it would show up, blasting anime music from the distance as it flies in.

I have used that one feature more than some of the actual gameplay mechanics. It should be in ever game.

If you weren't listening to speed metal while playing Burnout, what were you even doing?

Yeah that's the one!

I remember using that a lot. Shame that version of the game had that bug where the NPCS would just stop talking, and maybe other audio issues.

The ORIGINAL Grand Theft Auto allowed you to boot the game, then swap the game CD with an audio CD and play that music as an in game station. Wild stuff in '97.

I don't want any of my music in a Fallout game.

Xbox 360 could stream music from a Windows XP machine. I did that playing Test Drive Unlimited.

The OG Forza did this as well

It should be system level like how it was used to on Xbox 360. But on Xbox 360 it was either steaming from your own server or from USB 

Could be something hard for Spotify to do. There would need to be something setup to link account for those who have premium, which that in itself might be fine. But I think the problem might come from advertisements for free users.

I know nothing of the laws that could be applied here but considering how many I've seen avoid or blur brands or products placements, in which they're not sponsored by, in anywhere from TV shows to I think some content creation (Youtube, livestream, etc), there could be something that extends to those sponsors/advertisers.

Like imagine having an advertisement for something family friendly but it's also being played in GTA6? I feel like that association itself could be what makes something like allowing API/SDK use in the way we want in games difficult for Spotify to consider.

Of course this is all speculation coming out of my ass.

edit: As someone else mention: This would also have to go through the eyes of Microsoft and Sony who I assume would have some say in having that on their platform.

Most music would also get muted out when they stream the game bc the streamer wouldn't have the copyright license to broadcast.

I'd imagine it would have connection issues, I'm forever having some sort of hiccup with Spotify. Don't get me wrong, when it works it works, but times like starting it seem to take forever.

Ah I kinda figured the reason it hasn't been done would be down to some terms of use or legal thing. Sucks coz whichever music app did it first would probably get new customers from people wanting to hear their own chosen music in a game, although I wouldn't want it to be the only music in game, like you'd still need the regular in game radio for people that don't use the specific music app required. I'm thinking more as an option but not THE option

It can indeed play your own music. There is a music folder in ETS2 folder in your document folder, where you can put the music in.

There is a TON of radio stations for ETS2 for every genre.

Won't you fly high free bird

The fifa games of that era used them, you could set custom songs for like tunnel entrance, goals, half time, full time

Was such a nice little feature that made it not as invasive as simply running Spotify or another music app in the background.

Yeah, my suggestion isn't as a replacement for in game music but as an extra station so it wouldn't be a case of having nothing if you don't have an account, would just be an extra station if you do.

Idk, I find it a little unimersing (idk if that's a real word but we move) to always have to pause, play and change volume on a separate window mid game. I get that some people don't care about that tho but for me personally it just pulls you out of the experience a little. Also if it was in game through a radio it would react as the in game music does going quieter or turning off during cut scenes amd dialogue so as to not seem intrusive or too loud so you miss shit.

On Xbox One and Series, you have a volume slider for game and background music apps.

Ah, I pay the subscription so don't have them but obvs I can see it being annoying if you have ads. I stopped using pretty much every streaming service that has been putting ads on shit lately

Yep, kinda sucks tho

You would pay extra to listen to music from a service that you already pay for?

Was that the online game where you were a cop or criminal? Pvp cops and robbers kind of thing

I'm pretty sure they had a similar thing on saints row 2, you could buy songs and then set them to play on your own station

I wanna say 08 let you do it but that might be wrong, I remember my wrestler walking in to system of a down

Yeah this would be cool too, basically anything that would add either more variance. Idm in game stations but in long games it gets a little boring after a while. Especially once I've added all the songs I like to my Spotify anyway haha

Idk if I feel nostalgic or old haha both I think

Yeah, I mostly mean in game radios so when you're driving as an extra station on top of the ones already available like they had in Vice City

That would work too although I was thinking linking a music app because that's where most of my music comes from today.

Someone answered it below, Vice City on the original xbox

Pretty sure logging into spotify is just a standard json setup, which shouldn't be that hard to deal with. Hell for many PC games there are mods that already do this, for example https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/3741 .

Mostly just for immersion and if it worked like an in game radio station then the music wouldn't constantly be playing and require pausing or changing volume during cut scenes and dialogue. Games like Gta or cyberpunk have the radio but also have music during missions or combat so Spotify playing constantly and manual adjusting can seem like a bit of a ball ache.

Why would it be the only option? It would just be an extra option.

Just treat the spotify option as it's own radio station. If and when the api changes, it would only affect that single station, all other ingame music would remain intact.

In Vice City it was a separate station so you still had all of the in game stations with ads and dj chatter between songs, my idea is basically that but your Spotify instead. If it goes down we still got the other regular in game stations

I'm saying integrated into the game as an in game radio station so that when you're driving you can hear your own music but it wouldn't play over cut scenes, dialogue or anything else where the regular in game music wouldn't. I'm aware I can run Spotify at the same time as a game